Comments on: Domesticity

By: smokering

smokering — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:35:57 +0000

Same as the rest of the house; a sort of yellowy creamy paleish colour. It’s OK. I don’t love it, but that is why one rents; to practice colour combinations on someone else’s walls.

By: smokering

smokering — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:34:59 +0000

a) Don’t blame me, blame Helpdesk Man.
b) Gosh yes. He’s starting up a business called Information Highwayman, writing copy and designing business cards, logos and websites for people. He’s gonna start working from home full-time when he gets enough clients, and then he will branch out into designing ginger beer labels and movie posters, and we will buy a steampunk lodge in the country with a minicoo and better chickens, and we will take turns homeschooling our umpteen snortlepigses while I write hard-hitting journalistic articles and the Great New Zealand Novel in my writing room, which will, incidentally, be in a turret.
c) Is it.
d) Mm. You’d get the skinny on which BBC actors had funny-shaped heads. You could sell it to the tabloids. “David Tennant: Ventouse Rumours Rock Set of Dr Who”.

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:47:29 +0000

a) It’s not the pixels, it’s the lens. And you should have gone for one with more optical zoom.

b) Since when has Bnonny been a graphic designer? Nobody keeps me informed.

c) Saying “I work for a charity” is not bad

d) At the moment, I would like to be a milliner. Maybe. Part time. A historical milliner - perhaps working for the BBC period drama costume department. Could be fun, no?

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:46:25 +0000

What colour are you painting the sewing room?

By: Grumpy Miss Marshall

Grumpy Miss Marshall — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:05:17 +0000

Fortunately for silly Bnonny, Canons are 74% cooler than Fujifilms at any distance. It may also interest him to know, as it did me, that saying “I’m a Pilates instructor” earns a response a mere 2% lower than “I’m a dancer”, which, as any fule kno, tops “I’m a designer” by a factor of 4, if the speaker is female. Which I am.

In other news, I would like to be a Rolfer for three sessions a week, teach Pilates for six private clients, teach a fabulously profitable mat class once a week, run Pilates certification programmes twice a year for a hefty fee, and spend five hours a night in front of a blazing log fire watching my dishy husband write books. Or, I’d like to be a sign-language interpreter at cosy singer-songwriter gigs.

By: smokering

smokering — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:56:02 +0000

Only because you homeschool. :p Although if I had thunk up such an elaborate, ah, job description, I think I would have chucked in a few more words like “manor” or possibly “castle” or “plantation” while I was at it. And possibly “writer’s salon”, because if I were a Kept Woman in a manor/plantation/castle in the country, operating a select writer’s salon is practically the first thing I’d do. If I knew any writers.

By: Deb

Deb — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 04:45:45 +0000

Could I be a Kept Woman whose Keeper is permanently out of the country and even when he is in country is busy covering his homosexuality for the benefit of the wealthy estate of his quickly-deceasing family?

By: Information Highwayman

Information Highwayman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:57:30 +0000

PS. “I’m a designer” is 48% more likely to result in accepted drinks, given phone numbers, snogs behind the gaming machines, STDs, etc, than “I’m a writer”, but 19% less likely than “I’m an actor”, and 302% less likely than “I own a Ferrari and I’m not in debt”.

By: Information Highwayman

Information Highwayman — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:52:25 +0000

For those wondering what kind of camera a fandabulous designer and computer geek chose to buy—after much research I settled on the Canon IXUS 80 IS. It offered the best balance between performance, size, features, ease-of-use, and price. It was only $50 more expensive than the Canon A1000 (megapixels ain’t everything), but significantly cheaper than the admittedly better-featured and higher-quality-at-high-ISO Fujifilm FinePix F200 EXR.